Battle of Ginger Pass

The Battle of Ginger Pass was an action of the Afghanistan War which occurred during Operation Anaconda in 2002. A squad of US Army Rangers was sent to secure Ginger Pass and a village located on a mountain, which was defended by the Taliban. The Rangers found themselves outgunned and outmanned, with the Taliban barraging the US soldiers with DShK machine-gun fire. The Rangers took cover behind stone walls, which easily crumbled under machine-gun fire, but they succeeded in holding off the Taliban fighters until they could call in an airstrike on the machine-gun position. The airstrike destroyed the Taliban defensive position, and the US soldiers secured the remains of the village. They then proceeded to clear the pass below after a short skirmish, and they moved on to secure Objective Betty, their designated landing zone (LZ).